Re: Dr. Feng's patients - Drains

[Guest guest]

> You mentioned you drove home after the surgery -- what about drains?

Didn't

> you have those? I've heard that can take days until you can get

those out.

I got my drains out the day after my surgery. I had my surgery on

Wednesday morning and got the drains out Thursday after lunch. It

seems that doctors vary widly on their opinions about how long to use

the drains.

Jade

[Guest guest]

With most of the PS's they like you to have less than 30cc of fluid

in each side before the take them out. If you have more than 30cc of

fluid there is a higher chance of having a hematoma wich will need

draining by aspiration later on. The body has a hard time getting rid

of more than 30cc of fluid. Working in surgery like I do we get

patients with drains for all kinds of surgery and they will usually

not pull drains if a patient is draining allot of fluid. The drains

are a bit unfomfortable but they are for the patients best interest.

i Looked at it like this, I did not want that gross stuff building up

or getting into my blood stream, so the drains were a good thing,

they were my friends. They were taking all that infectious nasty goop

and getting it out. I then discovered that if I looked at it that way

I could get on with sightseeing and doing things around the Beautiful

Cleveland area without worrying so much about the drains. They were

only a little uncomfy, since my surgery was in winter I could hide

them under my coat and sweater while we went off and saw the rock n

roll hall of fame and the NFL hall of fame. There was alot of cool

places that I got to see that I never would have seen had I not been

getting explanted in Cleveland. I later found out from other girls

that we were right near an Amish village, I wish I had known that

then, I would have had fun checking that stuff out too.

At any rate once your up and around and draining less than 30cc Dr

Feng will come right in to her office to pull them, even on a

Saturday like she did with mine. In the meantime you can still do

lots of things, just be sure to bring some baggy clothing.

button up shirts are a really good idea as well.

hugs

C

In , " jadebreaks " <jadebreaks@u...>

wrote:

>

> > You mentioned you drove home after the surgery -- what about

drains?

> Didn't

> > you have those? I've heard that can take days until you can get

> those out.

>

> I got my drains out the day after my surgery. I had my surgery on

> Wednesday morning and got the drains out Thursday after lunch. It

> seems that doctors vary widly on their opinions about how long to

use

> the drains.

>

> Jade